Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-07


 At the recent meeting of the Jsaer- scnian Democratic Club of New York Hon. Chauncey F. Black, of Pennsylva- mia, delivered himself of the following eloquent truths:
 We are Il ew living under Democratic administration whose conduct appears to have disarmed the criticism of the adver- sary himself We meet occasionally in the baser sort of Republican newspapers some expressions of merely snarling partisanship, but the better and greater part of Republican presses admit the affairs ot the government are managed under Mir. Cleveland with rare purity and conaummate prudence. All the pre- dictions of evil from Democratic ad ministration have signally failed, and all the predictions of good have been sig nally verified. Heretofore untold millions Were wasted in alleged efforts to produce a navy; now. in honest and earnest hands, a real navy of serviceable vessels is visibly arising upon modern appropria- tions, and without the suspicion or even the malicious suggestion of a job. Here t0fore the Pacific railroads have success- fully resisted and bafiled every effort to settle upon just basis their enormous indebtedness to the government. To day a commission, with ample powers, entsr upon that important duty, and the names of the commissioners are guarantee that the work will be honestly and thor ough,y done. Heretofore the carrying companies of these United States have exercised an irresponsible power over the busiaess of the country-Qreater than that %f all the governments. general and local, combined. To-day these companies are operated under bene6ceut statute, equally just to every man and every To- cality, so far as they may be reached by federal law, and, excepting those who after months of notice and preparation have been at length deprived of unlawful artificial advantages, it is hailed with grateful exclamation by the whole peo- pie. The commission featurs was never favored by the Democrat party. It vas forced upon reluctant House by the Republican Senate. An mcorrupti- ble and fearless commission would dc no harm, and might do some good, but bad one, weak 0: corrupt, would be the most fearful curse that ever visited us The Federalists understand this, and while we have, for the present. safe federal commission, appointed by the wise dis elimination of an honest Democratic President, the Republicans in our legis- lature are preparing to inf;ct upon the State of Pennsylvania commission ox- cluslyely partisan, with power to suspend at discretion, important clauses of the constitution. This catalogue of reforms under a Democratic administration might be greatly prolonged were this the time and place for that exhibit
 Thsre are to be seen almost every where by the' intelligent eye, aeanNing the whole scene of American politics, signs of renewed strength and vigor in the great party to which we belong, and in whose keeping we firmly believe the best interests of the people have ever been ahd must ever be ths most safe. The unavoidable irritations attending the 1 inauguration of an administration, after twenty-five years of exclusion, are rap l idly subsiding. and the subs tantial bene- fits of the change are rising into the clear view of men of all parties Let no Dem oerat forget that the record being made by Mr. Cleveland's administration is the record upon which we must stand or fail in that fatsful contest of next year, wher it is to be determined whether our sue cess of 1884 is to be, like that of eifer son in 1900, and of Jackson in 1928, com plete and permanent, or partial and brief If we cannot win upon that record WI
 
 prepared foc relapse to tue extrava gance, corruption and centralizing ex cssses of the recent past? Whoever shal bo the nominees of the Democrat party, they viii be judged almost exclu sivsly by the history of the existing ad
 ninistratien Let us be ready. Tl.a struggle involves for us and our childrc
 matters 50 momentous that hesitate ' speak of them without greater delibsrs tion. wish, indeed, there might be, 5 tho beginning of the next year, ten tl.o, ssnd permanent Democratic societies | , sustain the cause of pure administration
 strict construction and local liberty.